{"id":9217,"date":"2019-06-28T09:44:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T16:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/?page_id=9217"},"modified":"2026-07-15T14:57:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T21:57:59","slug":"anti-slapp","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/nl\/anti-slapp\/","title":{"rendered":"Verdediging van Activisten in SLAPP's en andere Lawfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\"><div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_post_title_0 et_pb_post_title et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_title_container\"><h1 class=\"entry-title\">Verdediging van Activisten in SLAPP's en andere Lawfare<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_section_1 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\"><div class=\"et_pb_row_1 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_1 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h3 class=\"\" style=\"--fontsize: 21.6; line-height: 1.5; --minfontsize: 21.6;\" data-fontsize=\"21.6\" data-lineheight=\"32.4px\">Wat is een smaadzaak?<\/h3>\n<p>CLDC-advocaten hebben met succes sociale en klimaatjustitieactivisten en -organisaties verdedigd tegen SLAPP-zaken (strategische rechtszaken tegen publieke participatie), die bedoeld zijn om de vrije meningsuiting \u2013 met name afwijkende meningen \u2013 te ontmoedigen. Bedrijven met diepe zakken hebben een lange, beschamende geschiedenis van het indienen van SLAPP-zaken om klimaatjustitie- en andere progressieve activisten en organisaties te intimideren. En ze blijven ze indienen, met als enige doel de middelen van activisten uit te putten, hun tijd te verspillen (wat de inspanningen die mensen kunnen leveren voor sociale bewegingen be\u00efnvloedt) en angst te veroorzaken. Al deze factoren cre\u00ebren een afschrikkende werking die de uitoefening van de vrije meningsuiting schaadt. Voorbeelden hiervan zijn smaad- (libel en laster) rechtszaken tegen mensen die zich simpelweg uitspreken tegen wangedrag van bedrijven. SLAPP-zaken beschuldigen de gedaagde activist of organisatie doorgaans van smaad of een andere vorm van onrechtmatig wangedrag, waarbij de rechtszaak als legitiem wordt voorgesteld, terwijl het werkelijke doel is om activisten te intimideren en tot zwijgen te brengen en het recht op vrije meningsuiting aan te tasten. De CLDC is een nationale expert in de verdediging van activisten en hun campagnes tegen de dreiging van ongrondwettelijke SLAPP-zaken. We hebben een grote verzameling processtukken en juridische middelen beschikbaar voor advocaten. Als u een advocaat bent die milieu- of sociaal-veranderingsactivisten vertegenwoordigt, kunt u contact opnemen. <a href=\"https:\/\/cldc.org\/nl\/contact\/\">neem contact met ons op.<\/a> Wij zijn een trots, actief, lid van de nationale <a href=\"https:\/\/www.protecttheprotest.org\">Coalitie Bescherm het Protest<\/a>, die degenen verdedigt die worden aangevallen door SLAPP-rechtszaken en activisten en het publiek hierover informeert. Door dit proces hebben we, als coalitie, overgebracht dat we elkaar steunen en dat bedrijfsintimidators iedereen aanvallen wanneer ze \u00e9\u00e9n van ons aanvallen. CLDC-advocaten hebben zowel de SLAPP-rechtszaken van Resolute Forest Products als die van Energy Transfer Partners (nu bekend als Energy Transfer) tegen klimaatactivisten voor onze cli\u00ebnten afgewezen gekregen. We hebben ook de Eugene \u2019Weed Nazi\u2019 verslagen, die probeerde een antifascistische activist uit Eugene aan te klagen met een SLAPP-zaak toen ze werd ontmaskerd als witte nationalist. We kijken ernaar uit om meer overwinningen te behalen tegen kwaadaardige SLAPP-rechtszaken!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_toggle_0 et_pb_toggle et_pb_toggle_item et_pb_toggle_close et_pb_module et_block_module\"><h5 class=\"et_pb_toggle_title\">\"Weed 9\" Lawsuit: Water for Citizens of Weed California et al. v. Churchwell White LLP et al.<\/h5><div class=\"et_pb_toggle_content clearfix\"><p>CLDC lawyers provided legal support for the \u201cWeed 9,\u201d and Water for Citizens of Weed, California (WCWC), nine members of the Weed community who faced a SLAPP suit brought by Roseburg Forest Products in their effort to control a local water source. That SLAPP suit against our clients was dismissed, and our clients were awarded attorney fees under California's SLAPP statute. Roseburg Forest Products' lawsuit came in response to the nine citizen activists voicing their concerns about their small city losing access to a vital public spring water source to the interests of the private logging company. RFP's attorneys asserted that they were just trying to resolve legal ownership issues regarding the water supply, but neither WCWC nor the nine people RFP's attorneys named in the suit had ever made any personal claim to the rights or title to the water supply \u2014 a fact the law firm admitted at the time. Yet even with that knowledge, the law firm appealed the court rulings and dragged the defendants through two more years of legal proceedings. Several of the nine activists are former mayors \u2014 some who are now in their 80s and 90s. The activists had participated in town meetings and taken other grassroots actions as members of WCWC, to educate their community about the threat to their water supply. After writing a letter requesting assistance from a state agency, and speaking out during a local meeting, they found themselves in court being sued by a $900 million timber company. California's SLAPP statute also includes what is known as a \"SLAPPback\" provision, allowing people who have been hit with a SLAPP suit to turn around and sue the \"SLAPPer,\" for emotional distress damages and other remedies that go beyond an attorney fee award for having to defend the initial SLAPP suit. In April 2020 CLDC filed a SLAPPback suit against the Sacramento law firm Churchwell White LLP and two of its attorneys, alleging that they engaged in malicious and unlawful conduct when they (on behalf of their client, Roseburg Forest Products) filed the lawsuit against the Weed 9 and WCWC. We recently submitted our final brief on appeal in the \"SLAPPback\" lawsuit, and hope to have oral argument soon.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":0,"parent":7992,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"page-category":[716],"class_list":["post-9217","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","page-category-divi"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9217"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18678,"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9217\/revisions\/18678"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"page-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cldc.org\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/page-category?post=9217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}